Hello, Can we just go back to basics and check that we understand the situation right.
You are going to your applications cmd + shift + a. You are navigating to the utilities folder. You are selecting terminal? Then attempting tab completion? If you are in agreement with the above. I'm sure the terminal is giving a response. Whether it's an error tone or a message of some description. How does the terminal respond? Have you hacked your .bashrc or .bash_prifiles? Is there more than one account on that machine? If so, do the other accounts behave the same? Gena On 12 May 2013, at 09:09, Brandt <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > There are no other directories starting with Doc, and I am not always in my > home directory. > > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > Sent from my macbook pro > > Contact me: > > Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 > > Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com > > My ring to Skype: > California, United States > +(1)760-5140161 > Extension 512 > Cape Town, South Africa > +(27)213-002317 > Extension 161 > Johannesburg, South Africa > +(27)105-002316 > Extension 170 > > Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 > > SIP: 5500...@spokn.com > > Twitter: brandtsteenkamp > > On 11 May 2013, at 10:58 PM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> What's it's response? Do you have another directory starting with Doc? Why >> are you using the home identifier? Are you not at your home route? >> >> Gena >> >> >> On 11/05/2013 20:04, Brandt wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Still no luck. Any other ideas? >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Brandt Steenkamp >>> >>> Sent from my macbook pro >>> >>> Contact me: >>> >>> Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 >>> >>> Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> >>> My ring to Skype: >>> California, United States >>> +(1)760-5140161 >>> Extension 512 >>> Cape Town, South Africa >>> +(27)213-002317 >>> Extension 161 >>> Johannesburg, South Africa >>> +(27)105-002316 >>> Extension 170 >>> >>> Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 >>> >>> SIP: 5500...@spokn.com >>> >>> Twitter: brandtsteenkamp >>> >>> On 11 May 2013, at 8:55 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Documents starts with a capital D. Type ~/Doc <tab>. >>>> >>>> Tab completion is case sensitive. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Barry Hadder >>>> bhad...@gmail.com >>>> https://twitter.com/BarryHadder >>>> UnitMaster >>>> Available in the Mac app store. >>>> >>>> >>>> On May 11, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Brandt <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> In this case, typing something like "cd ~/doc" then hitting the tab key >>>> should complete "cd ~/documents" This is not happening. How do I fix the >>>> problem? >>>> >>>> Warm regards, >>>> >>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>> >>>> Sent from my macbook pro >>>> >>>> Contact me: >>>> >>>> Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 >>>> >>>> Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> My ring to Skype: >>>> California, United States >>>> +(1)760-5140161 >>>> Extension 512 >>>> Cape Town, South Africa >>>> +(27)213-002317 >>>> Extension 161 >>>> Johannesburg, South Africa >>>> +(27)105-002316 >>>> Extension 170 >>>> >>>> Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 >>>> >>>> SIP: 5500...@spokn.com >>>> >>>> Twitter: brandtsteenkamp >>>> >>>> On 11 May 2013, at 5:23 PM, "Jonathan C. Cohn" <jonc...@cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> This is rather a complicated question, since the terminal invokes a shell >>>>> and the shell is then invoking other programs and there is no mechanism >>>>> in UNIX to have those other programs tell the shell what arguments they >>>>> will accept. On the other hand bash and zsh and tcsh shells will all do >>>>> file name completion and can be programmed to do completion of of other >>>>> commands unfortunately not many commands are so programmed. EMACS which >>>>> has a toolkit called emacsspeak which can with some work be compiled to >>>>> work on the Macintosh has a fairly extensive completion scheme. In places >>>>> where emacs is using the command line at the bottom of the editor screen, >>>>> and in some other areas where the text editor is not really working as a >>>>> text editor, Emacs accepts a question mark to tell you what it expects >>>>> and an tab (or perhaps an escape) to complete the current argument. Emacs >>>>> took these structures from an 1080's Operating System called TOPS-20, >>>>> and almost every completion scheme since has followed this example.T >>>>> >>>>> To get back to the shell, when you type the command "defaults" and then >>>>> provide arguments such as read com.apple.textedit those arguments are >>>>> first interpreted by the shell and then once and only once you hit the >>>>> return key are passed to the defaults command. So what this means is >>>>> that unless the shell knows all 10,000 programs available to it it can >>>>> not provide complete completion code. >>>>> Best wishes, >>>>> >>>>> Jonathan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On May 11, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Brandt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there anyway to have the tab key complete what you are typing into >>>>>> the terminal? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> If there is, please let me know. Thanks so long. >>>>>> Warm regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Brandt Steenkamp >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my macbook pro >>>>>> >>>>>> Contact me: >>>>>> >>>>>> Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 >>>>>> >>>>>> Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> My ring to Skype: >>>>>> California, United States >>>>>> +(1)760-5140161 >>>>>> Extension 512 >>>>>> Cape Town, South Africa >>>>>> +(27)213-002317 >>>>>> Extension 161 >>>>>> Johannesburg, South Africa >>>>>> +(27)105-002316 >>>>>> Extension 170 >>>>>> >>>>>> Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 >>>>>> >>>>>> SIP: 5500...@spokn.com >>>>>> >>>>>> Twitter: brandtsteenkamp >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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